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  Hello and welcome to the Green Industry Podcast, your go-to guide for building a more profitable and thriving lawn care and landscaping business. Your host, Paul Jameson, is the author of five bestselling books, including Cut That Grass and Make That Cash and his latest, Level Up Your Money, all available on Amazon and Audible. Now get ready for more expert insights and practical strategies to boost your business and level up your life. Here's Paul Jameson.

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  Welcome, welcome. Today on the program, we are going to debrief the Equip Expo my week in Louisville, Kentucky. This is part two. And ever since I got back from Equip Expo, I've been working non-stop here. So I wanted to get more debriefing done immediately after our wonderful week in Louisville, but here we are. Got me a hot cup of coffee. Shout outs to Vermeer on the nice coffee mug here. You probably saw that, that great sunlight coming in the window here. So we are ready to rock and roll here from sunny Florida. Let me know in the comments where you are tuning in from on this beautiful day.

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  We are going to be live here on the Facebook and YouTube. And if someone could drop in the comments how the audio is sounding, I want to make sure that it sounds nice and good for you on your end. I hear it nice and good.

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  My end, but I want to make sure that you hear good on your end. All right. So if you're new to the program, welcome. My name is Paul Jameson, and I started a lawn care business back in 2011, a long time ago. In around 2014, 15, I found this community of other lawn care business owners on YouTube, such as Greg Chisholm, Naylor Tally Pharoah, Stanley Dirt Monkey Genetic, Keith Kalfas. I started watching all these guys on YouTube back in 2014, 2015. And in 2015, a handful of these guys through the comments on YouTube basically like, hey, let's, let's meet up in real life, you know, or like internet friends, but let's actually meet up in real

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  life. And Greg Chisholm kind of pioneered this and he's like, well, I'm going, I'm going to go check out that, that GIE, Green Industry Expo in Louisville, Kentucky. And if anyone else is going, let's, you know, let's grab some pizza together or something. So they did. And then they put it on YouTube and I watched this and I was like, oh man, I wish I was there. They call it FOMO, fear of missing out. And I had it. And I watched their YouTube videos back, I think it was 2015. I was like, this seems like fun. So I had a work predicament. I was working at a radio station at the time and we had a big remote broadcast that those dates that was mandatory that I attend for my radio job, which was a lot of fun. We went out, the radio station went out,

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  you know, in the wild, in the public and listeners would come, you know, talk to us. And it was, it was a lot of fun, but I couldn't go to GIE, which since then they've changed the name to the Equip Expo. But next year, same predicament. These guys I watched on YouTube, they all went, most of them went, they made content about it. It seemed like they had an awesome time and they were becoming friends now in real life. So they, I could see we're all like commenting, commenting on each other's videos back in 2015 and 16 on YouTube, because we all had lawn businesses, but now guys are meeting up in real life. And actually you can see they're forming So I was like, I have to get to this GIE, which again is now called the Equip Expo. And so in 2017, I told my boss at the radio station a year in advance. I said, Hey, next

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  year in October, I can't go to the remote thing. I have to be in Louisville, Kentucky for this, this trade show with a bunch of my lawn care friends. So I went for the first time in 2017 and it was awesome. I met John Payjack in person, Naylor Tally Pharoah and a bunch of my friends for the first time in person in 2017. And then I've been returning to the trade show every year since then. It's always in October, usually the third week of October in Louisville, Kentucky. So on today's program, I want to debrief how this year's trade show went. I made some big mistakes, which was unfortunate because I'm in year, this was my eighth year of going to the trade show and I just made some bad,

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  just some poor choices. And, and I'm going to just share the stories with you. So let me get a little sip of my coffee here.

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  Get a little caffeine for your, for your entertaining purposes.

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  Nice little sip of agua there. Agua is, that's a Spanish word for water. For those of you who don't speak Spanish, I speak of un poquinho, a little bit, a little bit.

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  All right.

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  Gracias, amigo. All right. So mistake number one, and I went this year for the whole week because my friend Naylor hosted a wonderful event called LCR Summit on Monday. It was on Monday and Tuesday ahead of the show in Louisville. And he asked me to come and speak on how to, how to get customers through social media, which I was very thankful that he asked me to speak on that topic because that's my wheelhouse. I really enjoy social media and using it for good. So the mistake I made was when I booked my flight, I booked an evening flight and

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  A friend of mine who's a pilot for Delta Airlines, he told me a while ago, and I should have listened to him more carefully. But he said, "The best flights," and this is important for you, for your future, for my future, says, "The best flights to book are the first ones in the morning because they're usually always on time because the airlines want to start the day on time." "The issue that typically delays a flight would be weather-related, and most weather occurrences are usually in the afternoons."

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  So if you ever look at like the radar

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  on an afternoon, and there's a bunch of storms, maybe in Tennessee, and West Virginia, and Georgia, and North Carolina, and you know, that part of the country, there's a big storm moving through. Well, all those flights that are interrupted by those storms may get delayed, and then they're flying into Atlanta, and then they're getting connected somewhere else. And then once, it's like a domino effect, there's, there's these delays in the afternoon. And so a lot of times, these flights in the evenings get delayed. Well, I have this big week in Louisville planned, and I should have booked my flight on Sunday in the morning, but I didn't.

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  So Sunday comes around, I got my suitcases all packed, I'm got a good attitude, I'm all fired up, and I go over to the Atlanta, pardon me, I go over to the Tampa Airport. Greg Skippy Fields, "Good morning." He says hello on the Facebook.

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  I believe Greg was at the LCR Summit, sat right in front of me. If that's the same Greg, I can't see from the picture there. You're picked, I can see your picture, but I don't have my glasses on. There is a, my friend Greg sat in front of me at the LCR Summit. Well, anyway, on Thursday, pardon me, on Sunday, I go to the Tampa Airport. I go through security, I have pre TSA, and I have clear, because I do not like those lines at the airport.

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  So, uh, yeah. Okay. Greg, I thought it was you. Greg sat in front of me at the LCR summit. I'm just going to get to the LCR summit in here in a minute, but I got to share the story of how I got to the LCR summit, which was a fiasco. So I get to the Tampa airport. I go through the pre TSA check, which the line was more quick. And I get there and I made a couple of phone calls to my parents to say, hey, I'm about to get on the flight. You know, have a great week, yada, yada, yada. I gotta go because the flight's boarding in five minutes. Well, little did I know it wasn't going to board in five minutes. It was scheduled to board in five minutes at like 8:10 PM.

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  Well, they don't start boarding. I'm like, what's going on here? And so after a while, the guy who worked at, at the, um, I think it was Delta, yeah, Delta Airlines. The guy gets on the little loudspeaker thing and he's like, hey, guys, I'm so sorry to inform you. The flight's going to be delayed a while. We have a crew who's going to be your flight attendants, but they're not even in Tampa yet. So we gotta wait for their airplane to land here. Then they have to deplane their passengers, finish that task assignment. Then they'll come to the gate and then they'll board you guys, which is, um,

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  good news. There you try to spin it. Good news that, you know, right now the, the cleaning crews getting your plane nice and clean. So it's going to be nice and clean for you when you get on. But we don't know when we're getting on. Now I gotta go from Tampa to Atlanta and then get a flight from Atlanta to Louisville, which was scheduled to land at like midnight. So after a delay in Tampa, you can see the crew, like, uh, the flight attendants like running through the airport. They get on the plane and then the guy's like, okay, we can start boarding now. Let's all go as fast as we can because we're going to get to Atlanta really late. And a lot of you have connecting flights and it basically was like, you're screwed. They tried to say it all night, but they're like, we're going to send you off to Atlanta, but what happens when you get to Atlanta?

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  Just go see the Delta agents and they'll take care of you. So I'm thinking, all right, well, at least I'll be halfway to Louisville because I'll be from Tampa to Atlanta. And then we'll, we'll reconvene in Atlanta and figure out what to do. Because I was scheduled to speak at Naylor's event Monday morning. Well,

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  Long story short, we get to Atlanta and I don't know if this was good news or bad news, but my flight in Atlanta is now delayed. So I go to the gate and it shows delayed. Expected new time is 12:32 a.m., which is the next day now. I usually go to bed at 9:00 PM Eastern Time, or earlier. Sometimes I'll go to bed like 8:30, especially now that it gets the daylight savings time, or not savings time, I don't know how you want to word it, but it gets darker earlier now. So I'm in Atlanta, it says 12:32 a.m. The plane's going. I'm like, how am I gonna stay awake till 12:32? So I just, I just kept walking in the

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  terminal, just like back and forth, just to try to stay awake. And a little after midnight, they board the plane, I get on, and we fly to Louisville, and we don't get there till about 2:00 a.m. Now, for somebody who goes to bed at 9:00 PM every night, 2:00 a.m. is late, and I still gotta go get my rental car, and then drive to their hotel from the airport. So thankfully, I got great friends, John Payjack, he's staying up, he's like, hey, if you need a ride, I'm waiting up for you, I'll get you a ride to the airport. I was like, thanks Payjack. And then Naylor's like, hey, if you need a ride, I'll come pick you up. This

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  is again, I'm not getting to the airport till 2:00 in the morning. I did pre-register a rental car, but I didn't know if they're gonna still be there at 2:30 in the morning. So get off the plane, go to the rental car desk, and the lady's like, you must be Jamison. I was like, how'd you know? She's like, cuz we're all waiting for you. You're the only one that has a rental car, you know, that was on this flight, and we're all ready to go to bed. So I gotta go home and get a shower and go to bed. I'm like, it's 2:30 in the morning. Like, anyway. I'm tired. They're tired. So they get in the rental car that smells. I'm particular about, you know, I like my car to smell good. I have a vehicle that I put those little air fresheners in and every time I get in, it just smells, doesn't smell as good as a

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  new car. I love that new car smell, but it, it smells good. It smells real good. So anyway, I'm in this raggedy rental car, two something now in the morning, 2:40 in the morning, driving to the hotel. You know, I pull up to the valet at the hotel. No one's there. I'm just like basically parked on the side of the road. I was like, I'm too tired to even worry about this. If my, you know, the rental, if they tow the rental car, we'll figure that out tomorrow. I just, I literally just park on the side of the street and move. I'm banging on the door because the hotel's like the, the door is locked, which I guess is good for security. But I'm like banging on the door to, you know, it's almost three in the morning now, literally. I'm banging on the door. Hey, you know, and I was like, uh, trying to check in, you know what I mean? And so I get checked

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  in. Pay Jack's still awake because he's a good friend. He's waiting for me if I needed a ride.

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  So he grants, he greets me at the hotel and my trip was just off to a rough start because of all of this, uh, all of these delayed flights. Now it's 3am and I'm going to talk about circadian rhythm, uh, which is basically our, our internal body clock. So it's good to actually wake up before the sunrise and actually look at the sun. Uh, the, um, it's not the UV index. There's another word I'm trying to think. Um, when the sun comes into our eyes and the early morning sunrise, I forget all these terminologies, but it's good for our circadian rhythm and it releases things into our body to say, hey, it's time to wake up. It's, it, it basically gives us energy

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  and hey, it's time to be productive. It's daylight. And then on the opposite, when you sleep in a cool, it doesn't have to be cool, but when you sleep in a dark room with no like lights. Then you get better sleep. So your body recovers more at night and it's good for your, for your body to get nice, good, sweet sleep. So anyway, at the hotel, I didn't have time. I like to sleep in the room dark. Hotel, they got all kinds of lights. They got, you know, normally when I go in there, I try to turn off all these lights. I mean, there's so many lights and it's not good for this circadian rhythm. So I, I ain't got time to worry about all this. At this point, I'm so tired. It's like 3am. I just plop in the bed and I woke

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  up at 7am. So I got four hours of sleep and I wouldn't necessarily call it restful sleep.

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  And now I'm, I'm ready to rock and roll with the LCR summit. So I got off to a little bit of a, with my health and with my sleep and with my circadian rhythm, I'm way off now. And being in Florida, I like to go walk in the sun every morning and get that, get that early morning sunlight, go on my morning walk. Well, Louisville, it's like butt chilly cold, freezing cold up there. And I got to speak at 9am or 10am at this event. So I basically throw on some clothes. I go grab some breakfast at Naylor's LCR summit and I gave a, I gave a talk for about an hour about how important it is to understand who your ideal customer is and then make content online to let your ideal customer know that you can solve their

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  problem. So hopefully Naylor will give me that footage and I can play that on the podcast for you. So you can, you can tune on in. But it was a wonderful event. So Monday I was at Naylor's LCR summit all day. I know we got Greg in the comments. He was there, sat right, right by him. And awesome event on Monday, Monday night, I, I was a part of Naylor offers a VIP dinner. So I went to that and got to hang out with some of the other folks that they got their VIP dinner tickets. We had a wonderful night. Oh man, it was good food. I put on like five or six pounds at Louisville. I ate like a king up there.

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  So anyway, um, we got, we got, I live in Florida. So the sun, it's sunny. There's a, there's a lot of shadows on my face. I'm realizing because of the sun. Let me see if I go back here. There we go. The good problem to have this Florida sunshine. I love it. So anyway, LCR summit was awesome. Mailers event and then Tuesday crushed it. The speakers did a wonderful job. And then for those who signed up for his inner circle, we all went out to dinner.

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  Tuesday evening, that was another good meal. I'm talking New York strip steaks, mashed potatoes, asparagus, cheesecake for dessert. I ate like an absolute king. It was, it was so good. Both, both dinners, Monday night, Tuesday night. So then Wednesday, and at this point, my body still hasn't recovered. I was at like 80%. I just didn't feel as sharp as I normally feel. I didn't feel as energized as I normally did. And again, it goes back, if you're just tuning in, I should have flown out on Sunday during the day and got me a good night's sleep, you know, with the room nice and dark. Get to bed by 9:00 PM, wake up, maybe go on my morning walk for the sunrise and I just, I missed all my,

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  I missed all my daily routine. I just kind of got out of a rhythm. I got out of sync and then

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  my time Wednesday rolled around. Um, I, I had wonderful time at equip expo. I went to, um, several booths. I made a bunch of content that you guys, well, for those of you who follow me on Instagram and the social media is all, I'll be uploading this content. Lord willing throughout the month of November. I got, I mean, I captured so much content. John Deere had a new 100 inch lawnmower where the wings, the sides like fold up. So you can do, you can mow different configurations. Vermeer has a whole bunch of new mini loaders that are absolute game changers. They are powerful. They are comfortable. I checked those out. I checked out everything going on at Crest Commercial with all of their,

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  it's crazy. This Voyager lawnmower they have, it'll basically, it's robot. It'll get off your trailer, go mow your customer's lawn. Just map it out where you want it to mow. And it'll go back on your trailer and then you can drive it to the next property. So up until this point, the robotic mowers were more stationary where you just, the mower stayed, let's say it mowed a soccer field.

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  The mower would just mow that one soccer field only, basically. So, so you basically have to get one robot mower for one property. This new Voyager from Cress, it's 40 inch lawnmower. It basically is like a mowing crew because you take it with you to each yard. And then you just, you just program it. When you get to this customer's house, here's where you mow. So, so you're basically, instead of, instead of having a, a human being labor on the mower, the Voyager would just mow it for you. So that's out by Cress. Well, it's not out. It's, it'll be out in March of 2026, but that was out and equipped for people to see. And more than likely, two, three, four, five years from now, this is just going to be

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  common for mowing crews to be using mowers like the Voyager or the Voyager specifically. And you, you have that machine. So you're not, you're not relying on, does my, does my worker actually show up sober in the morning? You're, you're going to have this reliable piece of equipment that will do the mowing for you. So that's a whole nother conversation for a whole nother day. But that Voyager lawnmower from Cress, I, I literally went on it. So you can't manually sit on it like a traditional zero turn radius lawnmower. And I did that. I made a, I'm, I'm going to have several videos coming out again in the next several weeks. I just got to kind of get them edited and uploaded. But I got all the really good footage of this stuff.

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  So I was, I was on the mower and just kind of having some fun with that. And went to the Railco booth, talked with our friends there because a lot of people are confused. Kohler engines, what's going on? They, they're actually now Railco. So I interviewed the president there to kind of break all of that down. We had the morning show on Thursday, which was incredible. This was where we do a live podcast. Mike Garvey was great. My original guest was Jeremy Towboy.

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  And thankfully for him, he had a multimillion dollar potential deal with a commercial client that he's been working on this for a very long time. And they had a meeting and he wanted to go be with his potential customer and hopefully close this about $2 million deal. And so I got to actually follow up with them and see how his meeting went. But he's like, hey, I can't, I can't, I can go to equip, but I can only go on Wednesday because Thursday I got to meet with my customer and try to, try to seal this big deal. And I was like, go, you know, go get your $2 million. We, you know, we're not paying you $2 million. And they, they're probably paying you $2 million.

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  So I was like, I would go get the $2 million, you know, go, go get the, uh,

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  the commercial job and his, his, he's got a big business. They do like $8 million a year revenue. So $2 million is a lot. I mean, that's 15, 20%,

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  25% increase in his business if he, if he got that contract. Well, anyway.

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  So we're kind of at the last minute. Well, who am I going to interview? And thankfully, Mike Garvey, um, he's like, oh, you know, I'll hop in there. So, so big shout outs to Trooper, uh, well, first class Sergeant Mike Garvey. Um, he, he, he crushed it. He's, he's got two careers. He works for state police in New Jersey and then he also runs a fertilization and weed control business with about 900 customers. And so he did such a wonderful job. We did live Q and A with the, the live studio audience. So the morning show is this podcast that we do every year at equip expo on the Thursday morning.

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  The morning show, we do a live podcast in room B103 on the Thursday morning of Equip Expo. And Naylor Talia Pharoah does some podcasting, Caleb does some podcasting, I do some podcasting. And we have guests and then we have the audience do live questions, question and answers. So they were asking all kinds of questions to Mike and he was just adding a lot of value of how he manages his marriage, his children, his 900 customers, oh yeah, and his full-time job, which is a demanding job. So we should have that podcast out for you very soon. Equip Expo, I've been talking with them and we got to edit a couple of things out of it

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  and then we'll send it your way. So you can listen to that. This Green Industry Podcast that we're doing is available on Spotify and Apple, by the way, as well for the audio edition. We have over 1,600 episodes out there and we recently started season two. So I had like 1,599 episodes on season one and I was like, you know what, let's start a fresh new season. We're going to do a little bit different of a publishing schedule with season two. We're going to go for now, three days a week. Just going to try it out for this month, Monday, Wednesday, Fridays. It really helped me to focus more on doing more video podcasts, which take a little bit more time and then trying to get, I don't want to say better guests

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  because we've had incredible guests. I mean, up to this point, we've interviewed some juggernauts, man. I mean, we've had some amazing episodes, but I want to, I want to continue that excellence in broadcasting, that high caliber guest and doing five episodes a week was just getting a little bit difficult with my current schedule. So we're going to, we're going to try three quality episodes a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday for now and

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  Try to record more of those on, online as well, on video. And then, of course, you can listen to them on Apple and Spotify and wherever you listen to your podcasts. And then if you want to go back in the archives, we have over 1,600 podcast episodes to help you grow your lawn care business. So many good guests, so much quality stuff. So that's kind of the plan for the future. So the morning show was awesome. Thanks to everyone who came out and sat there. We had donuts for you. We had coffee for you. We had a great podcasting with Stanley Dirt Monkey Genetic and Nayler. And then with Caleb Alman and Cornell Mack. And then, and then my, as I said, Mike Garvey was my guest and he just absolutely crushed it.

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  From there, I just walked around equip all day. I hung out with my friends at the Toro Company at Horizon 360. And just walked around town there, or you know, the 1,200,000 square feet of exhibitor space. Thursday, I spent quite a bit of time outside, demo and equipment outside and walking around out there. And shout outs to Vermeer. I got to do some collaborations with them in their booth out there. And then, and then on Thursday night, we had the rally, the YouTube rally. So that's an event that Nayler does each year on the Thursday evening where he just brings the community together for some food, some fellowship.

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  So I swung by there for a while and got to meet some folks and hang out. And that was a lot of fun. And then I flew back to Florida on Friday. So overall, the mistake that I made, and I want to go back to this, is I should have flown out Sunday during the day just to make sure I got to the hotel at a time, a decent time and got, got to bed. When we sleep in these rooms where you have a bunch of, well, first of all, if you, if you're on your phone before you go to bed and like your phone's in your bedroom with you, that blue light is signaling to your brain that it's not time to sleep. So it's very dangerous to be on your phone before you go to bed.

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  So it's good to have your phone away from you so that that light's not going into your eyes late at night. And then these rooms that have all these lights on and all this stuff, that, that's, that's not good either. It's good for the room to be nice and dark when you sleep. So anyway, I wish I, in hindsight, I wish I would have got there on Sunday. Um, during the day, got to the hotel, got the room all prepared. So I just got a really solid night of sleep. So on Monday morning, I would have been ready to rock and roll. But instead I didn't get to, I didn't get to bed till 3am because of two delayed flights. And then I woke up at seven. So four hours of not the best sleep wasn't great. And then that, that negative effect kind of just went on. I, my body clock was so messed up in these

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  hotels. I was waking up at like 2:30 in the morning. On Thursday morning, I woke up at 2:30 in the morning. And foolishly, I just started getting on my phone because I didn't have anything to do. And it just kind of, that light kind of kept me up. So I didn't get much sleep on Thursday. Then Friday, I had an early morning flight and woke up early for that around 3am. So anyway, I had like three nights of just really strange sleep where I woke up at 2, 3 in the morning, two different times. Thursday morning and Friday morning, I basically woke up between 2:30 and 3am. So those were long days. And then back on Sunday, I, um, I didn't get to bed till 3am. So my, my circadian rhythm, my

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  internal body clock, all of that stuff was all over the place. Oh, Ryan, we got Ryan in the house. Check this out, Ryan. Let's go. Vermeer, a coffee mug.

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  My Iowa Hawkeye coffee mug. I guess they had the same colors as the Iowa Hawkeyes. So yeah, the Vermeer booth was popping, man. Ryan, they had a college game day out there. And when they told me college game day, I didn't really know what to expect. It was literally like the call, the real college game day. They had the desk set up. And then they had the field goal. And Ryan's enthusiasm out there is keep, people were kicking the field goal. It was, it was epic. So I went to kick the field goal. Not to make an excuse, but they had a microphone on me and I had all this, I wasn't in my athletic mode. I had no warm up. So I went to kick the field goal the first time and I missed it. But then I was like, okay, I can make it the second time. I'm gonna, I'm gonna really get a

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  nice step. Like I've watched football. So I kind of see what the kickers do. And I was like, I'm gonna make it this time. And so my second kick, I stepped up to that thing. I kicked it and it was kind of low, but it had enough carry and it went right through the uprights. And then we did a big old touchdown celebration or field goal celebration. I was hyped, man. That was probably the highlight of my equip expo as I made that field goal at the Vermeer booth. So that was, that was absolutely epic. And then Vermeer, they made their big debut of the ML100, the ML150. They have these new mini loaders that are super powerful. And I tried out the torque at, they actually had me out to Iowa a few weeks in advance. And they had a pile of all kinds of

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  branches and dirt and all kinds of stuff. And I mean, they had buckets attached. So the torque on that thing, boom, you just pick up stuff. It was very powerful, very comfortable. So anyway, Vermeer definitely won the award of best outdoor booth. That place was absolutely popping. And wonderful energy out there at the Vermeer booth. So and then old Cornell Mack, I saw him out there. He went 0 for 2, I think, on his field goal. So he's always running his mouth of how he's a superstar athlete, but he is under the pressure, under the, the bright lights, the big stage of the Vermeer College Game Day. I think he went 0 for 2 on his kicks. But that was, that was a lot of fun. So big shout outs to Vermeer for inviting me to be a part of their College Game

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  Day atmosphere. And congratulations to them on the, the new equipment there. I'll have a new video coming out, actually, the ML100 here soon. So I recorded a bunch of footage for that. So wonderful time at equip. But my, my takeaways for next year is I have to take better care of my health and my body when I go to these trade shows because I can't just willy nilly fly in there late at night, stay up till 3:00 in the morning and I was just feeling it all week. So Lord willing, next year will be my ninth year attending Equip Expo and I just gotta do a better job of planning and scheduling and getting to town, you know, getting good night rest and everything. But other than that, it was

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  just absolutely wonderful time. Lot of great connections were made. And Mr. Producer went with me again this year. He had a great time. So thanks to everyone who encouraged him. He had just, he had a wonderful time. So he's been really enjoying going to the Equip Expos. And if you're wondering when the next Equip Expo is, they've already announced the date, location, all of that is on their website. It will be October 20th through 23rd. That would be the year 2026 Louisville, Kentucky. And check this out. Tickets right

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  now are on sale until December 31st, it looks like for only $20. Now, check this out. If you use the promo code PAUL, you'll save an extra 50% off of that. So if your math skills are calculating here, if your math is mathing, you can get a ticket today to the Equip Expo for only $10 per ticket with the promo code PAUL. Again, that's a very time sensitive offer. So if you go to the Equip Expo website, I actually did this yesterday. You just fill it out. You just type in your name, email address, your basic information. And then when you get to like the last page, right before you're

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  about to check out, it will say promotional code. And you type in my name, P A U L, Paul, Tony Rudolph, if you're listening, P A U L, he spelled it like P A W, sounds like paw. No, my name, Paul, P A U L. Anyway, type in Paul, P A U L. It will literally in like real time, it'll show your ticket going from $20 to $10. If you type, if you spell my name correctly, P A U L, and hit the little button there, you'll see your ticket go from $20 to $10 per ticket. Now, if you bring in

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  Your spouse or your, your, your team and you're buying more tickets, you still save 50% off of every ticket. So hypothetically, let's say you buy five tickets, $20 a ticket because you're getting them now, $100, you type in promo code PAUL, it will take it down to $50 or you know, half off. So no matter how many tickets you get, each ticket will be half off with the promo code PAUL, which is pretty cool. So anyway, they have opened up registration for the 2026 EQUIP Expo and the tickets are as cheap as they'll be now with getting the extra, extra early bird here and then the promo code PAUL. On top of that, you get your tickets for $10. That'll be good. All right. Well, thanks for listening to today's program and we will see what we can do

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  about getting you the, um, the morning show episode out as soon as possible. And in the meantime, in between time, thanks for listening. Hope to catch you on the next one.

• 37:14Speaker 01

  Hey, it's Marty, producer of the Green Industry Podcast. This episode is over, but check the episode notes for links to products and services that you heard about during the episode. And thanks for listening.